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...Dallas-area homes (1,230 sq. ft. to 1,407 sq. ft.) at prices ranging from $20,450 to $24,750; they also have three bedrooms and two baths, and the large family room-dining area-kitchen combination in each has a fireplace. The house is designed to take one-fourth as much energy to heat and cool as a standard 2,800-sq.-ft. house...
...supported by at least one biographer, that Lawrence's wife Frieda could not resist his graceful good looks and finally yielded to him while the Lawrences vacationed in Spotorno-at which point Lawrence discovered them flagrante delicto. Lawrence took literary revenge by writing Lady Chatterley. In 1930, after Lawrence succumbed to tuberculosis, Ravagli wrote to Frieda: "I am waiting for you." She came. Ravagli abandoned his wife and three children for Frieda and lived with her for nearly 20 years before they were married in 1950. When Frieda died in 1956, Ravagli inherited one-fourth of her estate, which...
Federal grants and contracts awarded to Harvard accounted for one-fourth of the University's total budget of $270 million during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, a University official said yesterday...
...Bowen, former president of California's Claremont Graduate School, and W. John Minter, an educational consultant, was based on a survey of 100 private colleges from 1969 into early 1975. Despite the depressed economy, the report noted that no major private colleges or universities have failed. Although about one-fourth of those surveyed are on shaky financial ground, the total assets of the 100 schools grew by 26%, while their Liabilities were rising by 18%. Income from private gifts went up 34%; government grants showed a 65% increase...
...that first election, Reagan beat Incumbent Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown with nearly 57% of the 6.5 million votes cast and won a surprisingly high one-fourth of the Democratic vote. Declaring that "there are simple answers," he took office in 1967 with a promise to reduce state spending by 10%, cut welfare, curtail the growth of state government and crack down on student protesters. He turned out to be more pragmatic than his rhetoric suggested, in part because he had to compromise with a Democratic legislature. He managed to limit, but not reverse, the growth of state government; he boasts...